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The price and its breakdown
What the headline price covers, and which lines are added to it.
Energy brokerage
Renegotiate your contract on the load curve
Price is set on the hourly profile, not on the annual total: we take your actual profile to market.
- Analysis based on the site's load curve
- Offers compared on identical terms
- France and Spain
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The load curve
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The bill audit
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Re-tendering
Your bill is decided before the negotiation
Energy brokerage means putting a supply contract back out to tender on behalf of the client: a specification, a consultation, a comparison of the offers and a reasoned recommendation. We run this process from the site's actual load curve, and not from an estimate of annual consumption. The load curve is what reveals the hourly profile, the seasonality, the peaks, the night-time and weekend baseload, and therefore the price structure that genuinely suits the site. The bill audit then covers every line of the bill, not only the price per kWh: the contracted capacity set against the demand actually reached, capacity overruns, reactive power, taxes and levies, the scope of the indexation formula, and the consistency between what is invoiced and what the contract provides for. A price can only be compared where scope, duration, indexation and termination conditions are identical.
Written by Oussama Triki, President of IHD · updated
Two sites that use the same energy over a year do not pay the same price. The difference lies in the shape of consumption: hours, seasons, peaks, night and weekend baseload. A contract renegotiated on an annual total is renegotiated blind.
Read the site before going to market
Going to market before reading the load curve and the bill means asking for offers on a need that has not been described.
The load curve
The site's actual data, supplied by the network operator under the client's mandate or read from metering. No estimates.
- Hourly profile and seasonality
- Peaks: level, duration, recurrence
- Night and weekend baseload
The bill audit
Line by line, beyond the price per kWh, through to indexation and the consistency between bill and contract. Some lines are negotiated, others are sized.
- Contracted capacity against demand actually reached
- Capacity overruns, reactive power, network tariff option
- Taxes, levies, reduced excise rates
Re-tendering
A specification built on the actual profile, a like-for-like comparison, then a reasoned recommendation with the switchover timetable.
- Specification based on the load curve
- Open consultation, list of suppliers consulted
- Line-by-line comparison, on identical terms
What a broker can negotiate in a bill
A business electricity bill breaks down into three parts: supply, network charges, taxes. Only supply is put out to tender. Network charges and taxes follow published schedules, identical across all suppliers: supply is where we make the difference.
- Supply 38 %
- Network charges 32 %
- Taxes and levies 30 %
Read a supply contract before comparing
These points apply to a framework contract as much as to a supply contract, and you can check them on your own.
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The scope
Sites, delivery points, contracted volumes and the tolerances allowed.
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Billing and reconciliation
On which data, how often, and under which reconciliation mechanism.
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Guarantees and deposits
What is required at signature: form, duration, conditions of return.
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Indexation and its reference
The regime chosen and the exact index: two different references cannot be compared.
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Fees and penalties
The schedule of fees, notably on gaps between contracted and consumed volumes.
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Termination and renewal
Notice period, exit conditions and renewal: your room for manoeuvre at expiry.
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The nature of the supplier's commitment
What it genuinely commits to: the burden of proof in the event of a dispute.
Quantify a return on investment without a typical return
The calculation starts from the site's actual data, is presented with its assumptions and relies on no typical return.
The assumptions are shown
Reference period, volumes retained, indexation index, duration: an ROI without its assumptions is not an ROI.
The data comes from the site
Metered consumption, the contract price observed, the investment cost from the quote and, where applicable, the forecast value under the obligation scheme. Never a sector average.
The scope stays identical
Same scope, same duration, same indexation and same termination conditions on both sides of the comparison.
No typical return is published
No percentage, no amount, no payback period announced before the study: outside a specific case, those figures are wrong by construction.
What a return on investment compares
We compare the cumulative cost of your current contract with that of each offer received, on identical scope, duration and indexation. The gap between the two is quantified case by case.
- Current contract
- Offer received, on identical terms
We quantify the gap between your current contract and the offers received, on identical terms, and we hand you the comparison.
Price and consumption: two levers, one diagnosis
Cutting consumption is a second lever, and one that energy savings certificates can fund. A load curve already retrieved serves both studies.
Working in France and Spain
We support sites located in France and Spain, where market rules differ. In both countries, we defend your interests alone in dealings with suppliers, and the final decision remains yours.
- France: most non-residential sites are on market-based offers
- France: network charges are set out in published tariff schedules
- Spain: the regulated tariff is limited to the smallest capacities, businesses are on the free market
- Spain: access tariffs are regulated, competition is on energy and capacity
Verified on 9 September 2026.
What we will ask you for
- Number of sites concerned
- Energies: electricity, gas, or both
- Contracted capacity per site
- End date of the current contract
- Load curve available: yes, no, to be retrieved
Have your contracts reviewed
Send us those details: from the first exchange, we tell you what they allow us to read.
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